Transparency in Business

I understand the importance of being transparent in business. It is taken with high regards of respect and honesty to your customers, employees and most importantly yourselves.

But most of the time, achieving that transparency skills or aspect in your business is not that easy. It can not be done in just a snap of a finger. It may take a short or a very long while before someone could realize the value of transparency in business.

Take my experience as an example. Check out my post regarding this -- Why Transparency Is Important In Business?

A Surprising List of Twitter Tips Created

It's just recently that I have finally revived my first blog - Girlopinion.com and get it back working again. I just had my editor opened and surprisingly I came up with a list of twitter tips which I believed should have been posted here in my business blog. But I just leave it as is as I decided that since I have revived my first personally owned blog, I wanted my post to be as valuable as possible.

Honestly, I'm quiet surprised with the turn out of reader interaction on that post. Readers who came all the way from a list of friends, organic searches and bookmarked results were there to give some insights. I was overwhelmed and now I can see how important it is to really share valuable information to your readers. It's all worth the effort and time invested.

Btw, here's my 1st and ultimate twitter tip:

1. First, you must set a purpose.

As I have observed, twitter profiles belong to 3 categories namely: Personal Oriented, Business Oriented and Spam Oriented!These 3 types of Tweeps(people who tweet) have obviously set different purpose why they signed up for Twitter. Your profile can either be a personal, business or spam account. You might be wondering why I included spam profiles as one of the categories. Well, simply because in Twitter, you will really see obvious (spell OBVIOUS) spam profiles: following you, flooding your timeline with senseless tweets and a lot more. Now, YOU choose where you want to belong!

Check out the remaining 9 tips on my list of twitter tips over at GirlOpinion.Com.

How Internet or Any Business Benefits Social Media

"I agree with the goodness that being a social media maven brings. What I really appreciate the most with social media today is that it builds bridges to connect people from different parts of the world in a quick, responsive and less expensive manner, most are even free."

Well above is actually my comment from this post -- What SMBs Can Learn From Dell’s Small Business Outreach. I am not promoting Dell guys but they are worth noting for because they continue to give importance to small to medium size businesses with their really intensive and helpful Small and Medium Business Solutions Center.

You know what even if sales of their products seems to go with the flow of the economy today, they still make sure to gain that positive branding and loyal customers.

How they do that?

A lesson in being a social media maven. Dell has active social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube, as well as many blogs and forums. They’re finding out where their customers are and they are reaching out to them to grow their own community through the Web. If you’re a frustrated Dell customer, they’re finding ways to come to you and improve your experience. And that’s what positive branding and loyal customers are built on.

So, please don't tell me guys that you aren't convinced still what social media could bring to our Internet business.

Show To The World The Goodness of Twitter!

I'm an avid Twitter user: @girlopinion and so I thought Guy Kawasaki's post --How to Demo Twitter is perfect for me to be able to show off to my friends how beneficial it will be to use Twitter for your business.

One of the great challenges for anyone who loves Twitter is to show other people why they should love it too. Often it’s like explaining something you find funny: “You had to be there.” The contextual, ever-changing, and high-volume nature of Twitter makes explaining it difficult. Here are ten tips to help you demo Twitter to your friends, family, and colleagues.

1. Sales and support. Truly, Twitter is no longer predominantly about people telling strangers that their cat rolled over or that the line at Starbucks is long. You can start off by showing how businesses use Twitter. For example, AmazonDeals increases Amazon’s revenue, and ComcastCares provides support to Comcast customers. Zappos promotes the caring brand image of the company because its CEO, Tony Hsieh, is doing the tweeting.

2. Competitive intelligence. Another business use of Twitter is monitoring what people are saying about a company or its product. For example, look at this search of mentions of P&G and Swiffer. You can also monitor what people are saying about the competition—for example, if you work for AT&T Wireless, you should watch what people are saying about Verizon with this search.

The above quoted paragraphs are merely a fraction of the extensive 10 Tips on How to Demo Twitter from Guy's point of view. I think you must check out his article and quench that thirst for learning.

Why Care About Social Bookmarking?

Today, I will feature a trend that will help us - internet business owners, leverage our business. And that is through Social Bookmarking.

But wait, do everyone knows what social bookmarking is? So if you don't, the quoted sentence below is for you.

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users tost ore, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags.

Why care about social bookmarking?

1. Quick Indexing: The fastest way to have any webpage or site visited by the search engines and indexed is by submitting them to any of the popular social book-marking sites like StumbleUpon, OnlyWire and others. I have had a brand new one-day old website visited by the Yahoo, Google and MSN search engine robots within 24 hours of submitting them to these social book-marking sites. I can categorically say that it is the best bait to attract the bots to your pages.

2. Traffic Generation: There is more to book-marking your pages online than just getting indexed; you are also guaranteed some traffic from these sites as soon as you submit to them. Since you will also be tagging (or submitting them under your niche keywords), a lot of the traffic from these sites are also very targeted. The result is that you may also have return visitors if you have very useful content or compelling offers on your website.

The above 2 tips about social bookmarking is a fraction of Suthan's article over at Ezine revealing the 4 Irresistible Benefits of Social Bookmarking. To complete our quest for social bookmarking, consider checking out his article and this is where you'll jumpstart.

Are you a Twitter User? You must check this out!

Twitter is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds lately. It seems like everyone is talking about Twitter. The neat thing is that everyone seems to use Twitter in their own unique way. Hundreds of Twitter applications can be found on numerous sites that offer cool tools to help you manage the way you use Twitter.

If you use Twitter for marketing your small business, I sorted thru tons of apps to bring you the most helpful. Feel free to suggest other Twitter apps, for business owners, below in the comments.

Amanda is so generous of putting some great efforts on listing this cool twitter applications which might fits mine and your use of Twitter. So go and check it out here ->27 Twitter Applications Your Small Business Can Use Today.

I'm a Young Entrepreneur! Are You?

Are you young like me? Are you young at heart? And are you an entrepreneur? Then, we belong in this inspiring young entrepreneur's educational blog.

These days it seems that entrepreneurs are starting their ventures younger in life than ever before. Though they may lack in business experience, there are lots of resources that they can find to help educate themselves online.

I found that great news as Paula cited in her post about the effort of Online College Degree in creating this thorough list of 100 Best Blogs For Young Entrepreneurs!